Moving Beyond Marriage Bondage

Julie, pupil-turned-companion of dismissed Patna university Professor Matuknath Choudhary, popularly known as ‘love guru’ after he hogged limelight for his relationship, today said their child is going to be a “very special one” given that it will be born out of “love”.

“We both are a very special couple so our child too will be very special,” Julie told reporters at Shamla Hills Police station here where they had come following a case over a book on marriage.

Though the couple don’t have a child yet, Julie advocated proper training to parents before a kid was born, stating that birth of a child was special as a new life comes in the world.

“Nowadays, marriages were just bondages. They were not a ‘sanskar’ or a ‘dharma’ as they lack love,” Julie said after the media persons mobbed her for comment on the book, ‘Vivah – A Moral Rape,’ penned by Rishi Ajay Das.

Julie and Choudhary had come down to release the book.

Before the book could be released here, writer Das was beaten up and his face blackened with oil laced with some substance by the activists of Sanskriti Bachao Manch – an outfit linked to the Sangh Parivar – which was protesting against the book.

An author of a book describing the concept of marriage as ‘a moral rape’ had a tough time on the release function when members of a cultural group publicly humiliated him, here on Friday.

Hundreds of activists belonging to Sankriti Bachao Manch and ‘Akhil Bharatiya Vidhyarti Parishad (ABVP) protested the launch ceremony of Rishi Ajaydas’s Hindi book titled ‘Vivah – Ek Naitik Balatkar’ (Marriage, a moral rape) as they found it an attempt to belittle the institution of marriage viewed highly in Indian culture.

They claimed the contents of the book is an insult to marriage institution and an attack on Indian ethos.

While manhandling the author Ajaydas, some activists tried to blacken his face, but police prevented them.

Speaking to ANI, Sanskriti Bachao Manch convener, Chandrashekhar Tiwari said: “If someone tries to launch an attack on our culture then we can even take more severe action than this. This was just a trailer and if someone attacks our culture then obviously we will not tolerate it.” Full Story